June 7th – The Who become the first act to
perform rock music (their rock opera “Tommy”) at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York.
June 9th – Bob Dylan is awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music by Princeton University.
June 9th – Bob Dylan is awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music by Princeton University.
“Although he is now approaching the perilous age of thirty, his music
remains the authentic expression of the disturbed and concerned
conscience of young America.”
Dylan later said that his experience at Princeton would go on to inspire his song "Day Of The Locusts."
